Amagansett
An Amagansett man is facing several misdemeanor charges this week. Police stopped him as he was pulling into his driveway last Thursday and accused him, following a field test, of drunken driving, after which he was taken to headquarters, where, they say, he grabbed a police handset and threw it down, breaking it. That earned him an additional charge of criminal mischief.
East Hampton
Two visitors from White Plains had a fight on Friday, and one of them wound up with bruises to his face, head, and neck. Police said the other had punched and kicked him, and charged the assailant with second-degree harassment.
Someone claiming to be in the fraud division at her bank called her on March 23, a local woman told police last week, telling her she needed to wire money to a Bronx address, which she did. The next day, the same caller told her to wire more, this time to a Wells Fargo bank account. Wells Fargo’s actual fraud department caught that transfer, canceled the wire, and reimbursed the woman her funds.
East Hampton Village
A Southampton man was charged on March 24 with criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor, after police found a wooden billy club in his truck.
After a tractor-trailer jackknifed on Ruxton Road on March 24, police cited its driver for causing damage to village-owned property. Police and village officials estimated the damage to grass, curbing, a manhole cover, and trees was in excess of $1,000.
Police found no evidence of fireworks on Friday after responding to reports of loud noises from Cove Hollow Road.
Last Thursday, police returned a wallet to its owner. A surveyor had found it on Cedar Street.
Montauk
Multiple reports of drunk and disorderly conduct Sunday turned out to involve just one man, a Patchogue resident who was reported to be running amok in the hamlet in the hours following the parade. He was first cited on
Main Street for an open container of alcohol. Later that evening, a Montauk Manor employee reported a man trying to gain access to a room, claiming his family was inside. Police took him to the train station and told him to get on the next train out of town, but not long after, employees of Street Food on the Green called to say someone — the same man — was banging on their doors looking for a place to stay. A taxi took the man to Best Pizza up the road, and the driver assured police he would wait around to see the man departing on the next train.
Two people called on Saturday reporting a loud explosion in the area of Gilbert Road and West Lake Drive. Police could not find the cause.
A “massive sinkhole” on South Etna Avenue reported last Thursday turned out to be “several cracks in the blacktop of the church parking lot,” according to police.
Sag Harbor
A Flanders man charged Sunday with driving without a license or registration had been cited on the same charges in East Hampton three days before.
On March 25 police also cited the driver of an ice cream truck, this time for peddling without a permit. The truck was reported to have been “playing music and moving slowly,” indicating that the driver was planning to sell his goods.
After she gave a presumed locksmith a check for $225 to break open a lockbox for her in February, a woman told police he’d “washed” it, and reissued it to himself for $2,225. To add to the confusion, it was cashed for a different amount, $2,025. It happened in Tennessee, she told police on March 23, who then advised her to report the incident to police there.
What a passer-by thought was a suspicious item under a car parked near Carruthers Alley on March 25 turned out to be a portable tire pump.
Police found a fire hydrant wrench left behind on a Church Street hydrant on March 25.
Springs
A Saturday afternoon brush fire on Bruce Lane was caused by fireplace ash, police said. Firefighters doused the flames without incident.